Page 11: Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70 in the year 1968.   

Jun 05   On this day in history senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68   

Jun 05   On this day in history sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day   

Jun 05   On this day in history uS Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles   

Jun 06   On this day in history franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies   

Jun 06   In the year 1968 senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.   

Jun 07   On this day in history dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60   

Jun 07   Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination on this day in history.   

Jun 08   Gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" in the year 1968.   

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport in the year 1968.   

Jun 08   New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted in the year 1968.   

Jun 08   In the year 1968 rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"   

Jun 10   Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

Jun 12   Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Jun 14   On this day in history karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51   

Jun 15   John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral in the year 1968.   

Jun 15   Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 on this day in history.   

Jun 18   Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing in the year 1968.   

Jun 19   50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign in the year 1968.   

Jun 20   On this day in history jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds   

Jun 21   Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91 in the year 1968.   

Jun 21   Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns in the year 1968.   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner   

Jun 24   On this day in history deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion   

Jun 24   Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title in the year 1968.   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 resurrection City closed   

Jun 25   On this day in history tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43   

Jun 26   Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US on this day in history.   

Jun 27   Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague in the year 1968.   

Jun 27   In the year 1968 norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies   

Jun 28   In the year 1968 daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers   

Jun 29   On this day in history kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66   

Jun 30   On this day in history gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections   

Jun 30   John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 in the year 1968.   

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 in the year 1968.   

Jan 07   In the year 1968 death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)